Q 01/05
A) 1969
B) 1971
C) 1973
D) 1975
Answer · why
She was born in Huntington on Long Island, the youngest of three children of an opera-singer mother and an aeronautical-engineer father.
Q 02/05
A) Oklahoma!
B) Paint Your Wagon
C) South Pacific
D) Carousel
Answer · why
'They Call the Wind Maria' comes from the 1951 show; her surname was adopted by her Venezuelan grandfather.
Q 03/05
A) Five octaves
B) Six octaves
C) Seven octaves
D) Eight octaves
Answer · why
Her whistle-register high notes are her trademark, though she has described her natural voice as an alto.
Q 04/05
A) The Voice
B) The Elusive Chanteuse
C) Queen of Pop
D) Songbird Supreme
Answer · why
Rolling Stone ranked her the fifth-greatest singer of all time in 2023.
Q 05/05
A) Tommy Mottola
B) Clive Davis
C) L.A. Reid
D) Quincy Jones
Answer · why
He heard it in his car, turned around to find her, and then spent two weeks tracking her down; they married in 1993.
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